Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 940

3 Once you have finished the profile settings, you can start the backup right away
To configure automatic backup for a given profile, proceed as follows:
1 Select Automatic Backup from the Profile Management menu.
2 Select Start Backup Automatically.
3 Determine the backup frequency. Choose daily, weekly, or monthly.
4 Determine the backup start time. These settings depend on the backup frequency
5 Decide whether to keep old backups and how many should be kept. To receive
6 Click OK to apply your settings and have the first backup start at the time speci-
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c Enter the path to the location of the backup if you want to keep a local
backup. For your backup to be archived on a network server (via NFS),
enter the IP address or name of the server and the directory that should hold
your archive.
d Determine the archive type and click Next.
e Determine the backup options to use, such as whether files not belonging
to any package should be backed up and whether a list of files should be
displayed prior to creating the archive. Also determine whether changed
files should be identified using the time-consuming MD5 mechanism.
Use Expert to enter a dialog for the backup of entire hard disk areas. Cur-
rently, this option only applies to the Ext2 file system.
f Finally, set the search constraints to exclude certain system areas from the
backup area that do not need to be backed up, such as lock files or cache
files. Add, edit, or delete items until your needs are met and leave with OK.
with Create Backup or configure automatic backup. It is also possible to create
other profiles tailored for various other purposes.
selected.
an automatically generated status message of the backup process, check Send
Summary Mail to User root.
fied.